INTASC+Standard+07

**INTASC Standard 7** The teacher plans instruction based upon knowledge of subject matter, students, the community, and curriculum goals.


 * Specific Category of Standard 7**


 * **INTASC.7.B ** || K: The teacher knows how to take contextual considerations (instructional materials, individual student interests, needs, and aptitudes, and community resources) into account in planning instruction that creates an effective bridge between curriculum goals and students' experiences. ||

**Understanding Sentence** Student instruction is based on vital areas such as content, pupils, the community , and standards set by the school.


 * Artifacts**


 * //Plant Lesson Plan//

**Reflect**

My Plant Lesson Plan addresses INTASC Standard 7.B.K. This lesson plan I created with plants connects students learn to interactive hands-on activities and is an example of my content knowledge. In this lesson I have a PowerPoint with the facts that the students need to know about how plants grow, their different parts, and how to take care of them. Along with the PowerPoint is a worksheet so they have the information while they do the rest of the lesson. Next, I have the children plant their own plant and over weeks they record and measure growth and new observable outcomes. Each student will have log which they have designed or created a cover page for. This lesson is hands on learning and shows my knowledge of content area. My PowerPoint shows my understanding of plants and plant parts which I must teach my students. Knowing the information for a topic is vital because how can a teacher expect his or her students to learn something if they will not learn the content.


 * Project **

This artifact shows that I know the content area of plants and that my lessons in content will not be boring and only independent work. My lessons will give children interactive experiences and have them working out of their seats. While I believe that children should get content and should know content because it is important to be a knowledgeable person, the hands-on activity and real world experience (like actually planting the plant and watching it grow) is vital to children’s learning. If you can’t connect learning to a real tangible experience to most children it will just be a bunch of information in a book or on some note page they have to keep until the year is over. I want my students to know that what they are learning is important and relevant and I am not just teaching it because I have to because someone above me said so. I want my students to remember information, like the parts of a plant, because they remember actually seeing each part grow in Mrs. Hudman’s class and how cool their plant logs were. We can teach content, but why does it have to be boring?